Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat

Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat will deliver a lecture on Nov. 23 at the Wisconsin Room of the UW-Milwaukee student union at 7 p.m.

The award-winning author is a Haitian-born author whose written several books including her latest, Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007. She won a Granta Regional Award for the Best Young American Novelists for her first book, Breath, Eyes, Memory, which was a selection in Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club. Danticat’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker and other anthologies. Named “One of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference” by Harper’s Bazaar, and featured in New York Times Magazine as one of “30 Under 30” creative people to watch, Danticat has also taught at New York University and University of Miami.

Tickets are $8 for students with ID.